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Neurodiversity, Autism, Awe, and Religious Experience (with Jonathan Machnee) (opens the original)
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Read the full transcript here. What does “neurodivergent” actually mean, and has the term become too broad to be useful? Why might people grouped under the same neurodivergent umbrella have conflicting needs? Is autism really a single spectrum, or would it make more sense to speak of multiple “autisms”? Why are autistic people somewhat less likely to be religious than their non-autistic peers? What is the “cognitive dissonance pressure cooker,” and why might it contribute to religious deconversi
Can We End Factory Farming Without Giving Up Meat? (with Bruce Friedrich) (opens the original)
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Read the full transcript here. Why is producing meat so inefficient? How does animal agriculture contribute to hunger and malnutrition? How large are the environmental costs of meat production? How does industrial animal agriculture increase the risk of antibiotic resistance and future pandemics? Would organic or free-range farming solve these problems? What are the biggest sources of suffering for animals on factory farms? Why do people who oppose animal cruelty continue to buy factory-farmed m
Our relationship to chatbots (with Claire Boine) (opens the original)
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Read the full transcript here. What makes an attachment to AI meaningfully different from an attachment to a human, animal, or fictional character? If chatbot relationships are built around validation and adaptation, can they ever provide the friction and otherness that make human relationships opportunities for growth? Does a relationship need reciprocity to be genuine, or can an asymmetrical relationship still be deeply valuable? How would the possibility of AI sentience change the moral statu
The good advice you least want (with Cate Hall) (opens the original)
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Read the full transcript here. Why do people gravitate toward self-help that reinforces the strategies they already use well? How can we identify the default lens through which we interpret nearly every situation? What changes when we recognize that our internal equilibrium may be less dependent on circumstances than we assume? Can personality systems be useful even when their categories are imperfect or partly invented? Does the Enneagram reveal genuine psychological structure, or merely offer
Why housing costs so much and what can be done about it (with Alex Armlovich) (opens the original)
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Read the full transcript here. How large is the housing crisis, and why does it impose trillions of dollars in economic costs? Why has housing become especially unaffordable across English speaking countries and an expanding number of American cities? What does the gap between the cost of building another apartment and the price it can command reveal about housing scarcity? How do local restrictions turn neighborhood opposition into a metropolitan housing shortage? Are NIMBY homeowners rationall
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